China, Russia prepare for joint drills
A squadron of the Pacific Fleet ships left Vladivostok for the naval port of Qingdao, China's Shandong Province, on Sunday to take part in the first Russian-Chinese military drills to be held next week, a press statement from the Pacific Fleet reported.
N. Korea to send badminton team to Vladivostok tournament
The North Korean badminton team will arrive in Vladivostok to play a game with Primorye's team in late August, news reports said Wednesday.
Two child care workers sentenced for forged documents
The Leninsky Court of Vladivostok charged a former official in the city administration and a hospital nurse with falsifying documents for an American couple who wanted to adopt a Russian girl, a press statement from Primorye's prosecutor office recently reported.
Russia dreams of Scorpio
The Pacific Fleet commander Admiral Viktor Fyodorov on Tuesday announced that the Navy will purchase two Scorpio robots like the British deep-sea remote-controlled one which two days earlier saved seven Russian men from a trapped submarine.
North Korea breaks off Trans-Korean railroad talks
Trilateral talks between North Korea, South Korea and Russia on the Trans-Korean railroad construction were stopped by the North Korean side, president of the Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin revealed recently.
International seminar questions press freedom
In Russia you have too little freedom of press while in Germany there is too much of it, Peter Schiwy, a German expert in journalism, declared during an international seminar 'Press as the fourth power in a democratic society' in Vladivostok on August 5.
Vladivostok greets 'Chechen Friendship Train'
"It is great to see the other side of Chechnya's life, the side we know so little about," told me one of Vladivostok residents who came to watch performance given by Chechen singers and dancers on Sunday.
Trapped mini-sub rescued, operation named 'international success'
Russian mini-submarine with seven sailors on board, which snagged on a fishing net and was stuck 625 feet down on the Pacific floor for three days, was rescued and lifted early Sunday after a British remote-controlled vehicle cut loose the sub.
11 die in tourist bus crash
Three Russian and eight Chinese tourists were killed in a road accident on Harbin-Heihe highway on Friday, Russia's Ministry for Emergency Situations reported.
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Oil production to be delayed in Sakhalin
The start of all-year-round oil production within the Sakhalin-2 project will be put off from the end of 2006 until the summer of 2008 since it was decided to change the underwater pipeline route to preserve the whales' population, news reports said Wednesday.
Oil gets into Amursky Bay in Vladivostok
Specialists from Vladivostok's administration department to monitor ecological safety announced Thursday that they discovered oil spillage in the Amursky Bay which puts the city's recreation areas in danger of ecological disaster.
Vladivostok juniors play Japan
Vladivostok's junior football team 'Aqualine' returned home after holding a series of unofficial games with teams in the Japanese city of Morioka, July 18.
Russian, American teenagers sail together
Ten young yachtsmen from the city of Bellingham, Washington, arrived in the Far Eastern port of Nakhodka on Tuesday to participate in the international sailing regatta.
Defense Minister tours Far East
During his tour about Russia's Far East on July 28-Aug. 1, Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov made a number of attention-grabbing statements, concerning the country's territorial dispute with Japan, joint military drills with China and heated relations with an American TV network over a recent interview with Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev.
Photo by Vasily Fedorchenko
Numerous spectators gazing at the Navy Day show at Vladivostok's Pacific Fleet Marine Station where in costume performances of Neptune and his maids and various demonstrations of skills by Navy sailors, Special Forces soldiers, pilots and sportsmen took place on Sunday. The celebrations traditionally ended with grandiose fireworks.
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7 people murdered in Artyom
Seven people, including two children, were found dead in the town of Artyom (50 kilometers from Vladivostok) on Sunday, The Vladivostok reported.
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